Mar 9, 2024 · Chris Soal’s latest body of work, Surface Tension 2024, is a development of his practice of the transformation or metamorphoses of quotidian objects and materials. Soal is well known for his, almost compulsive, interest with how everyday objects and materials can be rendered into uncanny yet familiar forms.

Chris Soal (b. 1994) is an award-winning, emerging South African artist. Soal’s studio-based practice is sculptural in its output, working with objects and materials in ways which show not only a conceptual engagement with the contexts and histories of the objects, but that also re-enforce the body as a site for knowledge reception and ...

Chris Soal’s latest body of work, Surface Tension 2024, is a development of his practice of the transformation or metamorphoses of quotidian objects and materials. Soal is well known for his, almost compulsive, interest in how everyday objects and materials can be rendered into uncanny yet familiar forms.

Mar 16, 2024 · WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Surface Tension, a solo exhibition by Chris Soal. My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange! – Ovid Metamorphoses

Chris Soal (b. 1994, South Africa) is an award-winning, emerging artist living and practicing in Johannesburg. Using unconventional found objects, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, in conjunction with concrete and other industrial materials, Soal negotiates structural impacts on urban living and reflects on ecological concerns, while ...

409 likes, 11 comments - chris_soal on February 15, 2024: "Excited to be showing my new body of work “Surface Tension” at @whatiftheworld_gallery over this very vibrant Cape Town art week. ...".

exhibitions vestige eduardo secci gallery solo exhibition 2024 7 jun - 14 jul surface tension whatiftheworld gallery solo...

Mar 16, 2024 · During the flux of the recent art fair, I had the privilege of joining a walkabout at WHATIFTHEWORLD where Chris Soal detailed what flows in the undercurrent of his latest solo exhibition, ‘Surface Tension’.

Using unconventional found objects, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, in conjunction with concrete and other industrial materials, Soal negotiates structural impacts on urban living and reflects on ecological concerns, while considering the philosophical and psychological notion of …

“Surface tension” is the most recent culmination of an idea I’ve had in mind for the last 7 years, and a technique which has been refined over the last 3 years specifically. Sheets of sandpaper of varying grits are laid over a woodblock carving, and eroded until …